march

I did not regret my decision to continue with an event.

Things were going well in my favor, and I thought I was confident with where I was. With their new release promoted on BE:tact 2021, so much love were given to ONF since their comeback. They have made many accomplishments that was unimaginable the year before.

The title track "Beautiful Beautiful" charted well in their home country, they had a roof hit and for the very first time, the boys won first place in a music show!

On the other hand, Cara graduated from college with an incentive recognizing him as global influencers. Can you believe it? K-pop idols getting a bachelor's degree is very rare and HE DID IT. But that's beyond my point but I'm happy for him anyway.

With that said, I was expecting the boys from BTS to receive their first Grammy award. They may have lost, but getting nominated is already a huge thing not just to them and to us but to the industry and to their country.

What a month. So many accomplishments from our boys.

But March was not really a great month, too, especially when it comes to technology. Most of the songs from the industry were removed from a well-known streaming platform, Spotify, due to its dispute with South Korean music distributor Kakao M when Spotify started its franchise in South Korea. I have been using Spotify for more than half a decade now, and internal performance relied heavily on the platform. I remember the BE:tact lineups having been affected by the removal, and I gave that much consideration.. once I started to already work on another event.

Something I promised not to do but did anyway, despite putting the boys on their long overdue hiatus to finally rest and carry out more serious activities and plans for Year 3. But I thought it had to be done.. just one more event for BTS.

The success of BE:tact led to my growing interest in the next BTS comeback. And since I was already watching music shows at the time, the first in a year, I was waiting for that day to come. But no matter their plan, I decided to do another event. My excitement have reached the point that I had come up with many creative ideas for that event. But until they confirm..

The only thing I did was wait for their turn.